Fortune Telling

xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxA DECK OF CARDS
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I open the Enchanted Deck,
revealing
The Key To The Kingdom.
Touch the top card,
turn it over
to glimpse the nine of Red Hearts.
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Love is here right now.
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The back of the cards,
in black and white,
show a lady spider
eating her mate.
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I shuffle fifty-two widows,
fan them out.
You choose three
to find your fate.
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A man who is King of Spades,
loves music and power,
will shower you with offerings.
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The young man called Jumping Jack,
The Red Heart,
has to be careful
not to burn himself out.
But being of fire himself,
he will always rekindle.
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Queen of Hearts,
here you are at last,
your beauty ever rising.
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Wisdom floats around you
like the white feathers of your soul.
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from TWO GHOSTS/ poems

Happy!

BITING THE APPLE
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I was certainly surprised to
hear on the local news today
that the Borough of Queens,
New York City, came in first
in a survey that places them
#1 in resident satisfaction.
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Or as the reporter proclaimed,
Queens was the happiest
Borough of all five. I would have
thought that perhaps Manhattan, which
contains Park Avenue and Fifth Avenue,
might have won out. Which just goes to
show that money doesn't buy happiness.
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Conducted by a Citizens Committee
for New Yorkers, 4400 people, a
reasonable amount to form a statistic
of 51%, said that they liked the friendliness
of their neighbors, the houses are nice, there's lots of
greenery, the largest diversity of cultures, many languages
(no hysteria here to make English the official language).
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And 68% really like to join in for the betterment of
their neighborhoods.
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I'm happy that this has seen the light of day. Maybe
there will be a shift in emphasis, and population,
away from Manhattan, to Queens, so that in the future
when we sing..."if you can make it there, you can make
it anywhere"...we will be singing about Queens, N.Y.
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I have to admit that in recent years, the only times I've
visited Queens was on the way to or from the airport.
Either LAG, or JFK. Queens, in addition to being so
harmonious, is very well suited for take-offs and
landings.
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In the future, as I drive through Queens, I will certainly
breathe deeply of it's benevolent air!